Hard bottlenecks?

[AlexTheGamer]

Hey guys.. so I recently got my new Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming and I absolutely LOVE IT *-*

and I was kinda thinking about getting another one... cause' lesbehonest... you can never have enough power

So would my CPU be bottlenecking these cards hard or would it be still okey?

and if not which processor would be appropriate for the gtx 970 sli?

And dont fanboy out here...because some people said I will be experiencing bottlenecks with my processor and I did not experience a single bottleneck since I got it....

oh and if it matters I usually play:

Crysis 2/3, AC3/4/5, Watch dogs, Saints row iv, gta iv and i will be playing gta v when it finally releases for pc

[Mush Brain]

Yup bottleneck, but not in all games.

[Mush Brain]

Hey guys.. so I recently got my new Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming and I absolutely LOVE IT *-*

and I was kinda thinking about getting another one... cause' lesbehonest... you can never have enough power

So would my CPU be bottlenecking these cards hard or would it be still okey?

and if not which processor would be appropriate for the gtx 970 sli?

And dont fanboy out here...because some people said I will be experiencing bottlenecks with my processor and I did not experience a single bottleneck since I got it....

oh and if it matters I usually play:

Crysis 2/3, AC3/4/5, Watch dogs, Saints row iv, gta iv and i will be playing gta v when it finally releases for pc

i5 4690k.

[AlexTheGamer]

Okay lol that was fast anyway thanks haha

[Faceman]

You're already bottlenecking a single 970 with an FX processor.  Turn Vsync off and monitor GPU loads.

 

The lowest end CPU to extract the most out of dual 970s would be a locked i5, but ideally you want an i5-4690k and Z97 motherboard.

[Blissed]

The i5 4690k would be great. since gpus benefits from high cpu core clocks you should oc it to around 4,5ghz+

and dont consider H97 board, because i think those dont feature sli support

[Sumsar]

You won't see that much bottlenecking. Your 8320 will bottleneck in certain games, but I doubt that you will have a bad experience. 

[small2cats]

Yes it will bottleneck but you will not really notice anything since it'd probably happen when you're already getting 60+ fps. If you use Vsync, it really doesn't matter if it bottlenecks or not, you'll get a smooth experience, and that's what matters.

[Imakuni]

Do you want to know what a true bottleneck is? My Amd a6-3500. It has 3 cores, c'mon AMD, what the crap is that?? And it's an APU, so cores are even weaker than normal. Yaaaay.

 

Get rid of shadows. They tend to crush CPUs.

[Jayfeather787]

The 8320 is a very strong, capable processor. It will have some lower frames per second than an Intel Core i5-4690k, as gaming benefits from fewer, faster threads, which is present in an Intel chip. Even though there will be slightly lower performance, it won't necessarily bottleneck, and it should not be slower by more than 10 FPS as compared to a similar Intel processor. If you plan on getting a new Intel processor, that's fine, overclock your CPU for the time being, and you will get slightly better FPS.